Trader Joe’s

I love shopping at Trader Joes because I know I can buy quality products, both organic and unique at affordable prices. Although it is a smaller version of Whole Foods, the store contains a decent variety of staples from fruit to wine that you should check out.
What makes me happy: Good variety and great prices.
My critique: because of the selection and cost, this place is packed. Solution: pull some people to help the cashiers bag the groceries. Seriously, there are quite a few employees walking around that don’t have anything in their hands or appear busy so lending a hand to help out would help keep the lines moving.

I love TJ’s. They are my go to place for so many things. Plus they have decent prices and the people that work here are always nice, helpful and really chill. I mean how many places can you share a recipe with your check out person. Who also knows about wine, cheese etc???

Really what’s not to love about Trader Joe’s. I shop there so often I can draw a map of the store. Lol. This Reno store is awesome. I love the huge fresh flower selection when you walk in the store and nice variety of fresh herbs. Pretty and super inexpensive. Super clean, great food, produce & products and nicely organized. Love that they stock tons of organic foods and kosher meats. The brined turkeys for Thanksgiving are super yum and in the fall, everything is pumpkined out! From cereals to body butters to dog treats! It’s amazing… And speaking of dog treats they have a great selection of treats and their dry and canned dog food is very highly rated. My two pups live on Trader Joes and their coats are gorgeous and super glossy. For the most part very friendly and helpful employees. I love it here and I can get in and out of the store fairly quickly. I’m hoping one day soon a Traders will open in Sparks. :)

What up TJ’s?!
Your staff rocks!
Parking sucks, know that and don’t expect more out of it.
This is our go to.
Bring your bags and enter the raffle! Heck yeah!

This is a great place to shop if you’re cooking for one or two. They keep their prices reasonable so you never have to look for sales. They have grass fed meat and carry some ethnic foods. Their chicken breast strip for my furbaby is a staple item in my household, which has only one ingredient — chicken. Dont forget to bring your reusable grocery bag!

I love their champagne and the prices are decent. Love this place! They always have a seasonal find that make an impression when going over to friends for dinner. They have the best non-​restaurant french onion soup I’ve ever tasted. I even bought a set french onion soup bowls online, but they sell out of the soup fast! So if you see it; GRAB IT! Everyday they have a sampling of food so you can try stuff you never would have though you liked, until the smell hits ya! One day I tried the Chicken Asada and I fell in love with it. It is now our fall to dinner when your day was just to long and can’t cook because this is super easy and very tasty– also paleo!!! The coconut milk ice cream is what makes all the boys come to the yard! They have it in both strawberry and chocolate! Have I mentioned that I love this place!?!

Let me just say that I love Trader Joe’s. This store has all your grocery needs, especially if you are vegan or vegetarian. They are also very reasonably priced. I know that when I’m shopping I’m always scared that my bill is going to be outrageous, but here I always leave with a smile on my face. I get 4 bags worth of food for the price of 2 at another grocery store!
They have a huge selection of cheeses! I always get so excited when I’m looking through all the different kinds because I’m a huge cheese fan. Their wine selection isn’t anything to scoff at either.
If you want a grocery store that has great produce, great prices, and a great atmosphere then look no further.

Love love love trader joes. They don’t try to rip you off like whole foods and they have every amazing product I could want. Always happy to stop by here on my Reno trips to stock up on a bunch of things that I want, even though I probably don’t need them

If you can find a parking spot, take the bus, or bike in to TJ’s it is worth it. There is an ever new quality about the store. This can be amazing or a struggle. Some items are not carried for long and it might be important to stock up. The up to this is that you will not be sad about buying a ton of the delicious limited item and the affordable prices won’t give you buyer’s remorse later.
I love how they sample wine and cheese every day of the week. The staff is friendly and tries to help you find just what you need. I love going here for wine, snacks, and specialty items.

This is my happy place.
Seriously though, I love Trader Joe’s, and the Reno location is actually really nice. The food is good and cheap — consistent with any other TJs you’ve ever been to. It’s a little intimidatingly crowded, but that only serves to prove how much everyone loves it. Seriously though, what other grocery store do you have to fight crowds at 10am on a Tuesday?
Most of the employees are super friendly. I recently encountered a grumpy lady, but she wasn’t rude exactly… Just not friendly. It was jarring because all of the other employees are SO FRIENDLY, all the time. I’m sure she’s lovely and was just having a bad day.
If you’ve somehow never been to one of these places, be warned: there are tons of healthy options and it’s well loved in health food and clean eating circles, but it is difficult to leave this place without some cookie butter or biscotti.

What’s not to love about Trader Joe’s? It’s heavenly and affordable gourmet offerings excite the imagination and tantalize the taste buds. The produce section is gorgeous, with standard fare, beautiful apples and pears, to more exotics (for me anyway), such as figs and cumquats. There’s a slew of hummus varieties. Fresh, prepared sandwiches, salads, and pizzas await. One of my favorite selections is the coffee area… mmmmm. Baked goods are amazing – breads and pastries galore. I recently tried the Petite Fig, Pear and Cranberry Tart – so good. The frozen food bins provide an international tour of culinary delights – spanakopita, gelato, Chinese fried rice, and tamales. How about a wine and cheese pairing – TJs has that! There’s affordable, excellent wines and many cheeses, ie: brie, blue, feta, cranberry goat, sweet chili chevre, and raw milk smoked cheddar. Not only that, there’s chocolate covered lots of things: potato chips, espresso beans, blueberries and pretzels!!!
Staff are helpful. The store is spotless. Checkout lines move fast. If you get on the mailing list, you’ll receive updates on new and exciting items, all a ploy to lure you in. And it works. I look at their ads and think… maybe I’ll just go look, or just buy that one thing. Yeah, right. I get to the register and stare in amazement at my full cart – who put all this delicious food in here?

Every time I shop here I wonder why I don’t come here more often! I was hosting some friends for New Years Eve, and I wanted to grab some bubbly and some unique snacks. TJ’s had just come up in a conversation with some family members at Christmas, so it was the store that came to mind. We filled our cart with some beautiful produce, some unique cheeses and cured meats, then some fun chips and dips. I just love their variety of items, and find the store much less overwhelming than Whole Foods. We were asked several times throughout the store if we needed help, which is nice, and they had plenty of staff running registers so we didn’t have to wait at all even though it was a holiday!
Trader Joe’s is definitely back in my grocery shopping rotation!

It was very cold yesterday when I went to Trader Joe’s and I really appreciated the heat coming down from their overhead heater. Then as usual I headed straight to the back of the store to see what they were sampling. It was some kind of beef thing and since I don’t eat meat, I passed.
They usually have coffee to sample, but yesterday they had Candy Cane Tea and it was delicious and I bought some. From there I went to the wine, because that’s the main reason I shop there and the wine guy was very helpful. I told him I really liked their Monte Ducay Reserva, a Spanish wine, and he recommended something else and I tried it and liked it. I can’t say enough how friendly he was.
Checking out is always pretty fast and checkers are friendly too.
Actually, when I think about it, there is nothing I would change about that store. I just love going there.

Trader Joe’s used to be much smaller before they expanded into the next building over. Before that, it was crazy trying to get anywhere in this store and the process just left you frustrated. Although that was years ago, the memory of it still lives on and I still associate Trader Joe’s with a place that is just not worth it and I tend to stay far, far away from it.
However, I got their most recent ad in the mail and there were several items that sounded tasty so I convinced myself to give it another try. We came in on a Saturday and it was still pretty busy, but the extra room does help a little bit.
I found one of the items right off the bat, a rarity when I’m in an unfamiliar store. I had to ask about another item in the frozen section, but the clerk knew exactly where it was. I wandered through the refrigerated section and the produce trying to find my last item and was unsuccessful. Then I realized there is another refrigerated section on the other side of store. So I stood there and stared not seeing what I needed, so I finally resorted to asking again. This clerk knew exactly where that item was too.
We headed to the check out lines, all of which were relatively short. But because it’s me I got stuck behind the person who needed to split their items into four transactions. After two, I moved to a completely open line and was out of there.
Overall, a better experience than I’ve had in the past. I don’t know if I’m up to task yet of just wandering the store to discover new products. For now, I’ll just rely on their ads and those websites that are dedicated to chronicling what’s good at Trader Joe’s. However, it might become my «I forgot something I need for dinner» store since it’s sort of on the way home and the store I used for that just closed so I’m in the market for a new one.

This Trader Joe’s is the worst location that I have ever visited. Why? Some of the people that work there must absolutely hate their jobs. There was a lady by the wine area handing out samples. Cool. I love wine and buy it there on a regular basis.
Me: «Hi. Which wine are you sampling today?» (Looking at 2 bottles of wine on counter)
Lady: «That one.» (points at bottle)
Me: «Uh…Ok…what would you compare this wine to?»
Lady: «It’s a blend. Try it and figure it out yourself.»
Seriously??? Why are you sampling wine if you don’t know what the heck you’re selling? Sales 101: Know your product. Ugh.
We also had a cashier on a different visit literally slam all of our items into a bag. She threw heavy items on top of my fragile items. Having a bad day much? Goodness. I shifted stuff around and got frustrated enough to tell her that typically you bag fragile items on top. She just gave me a blank stare.
I swear I’m not complicated! Haha. It’s just common sense which seemed to be lacking on these 2 occasions.
Otherwise, it’s just your typical TJ’s which I am and have been a frequent shopper of the company. Product is mostly the same. Prices are decent. The store is clean.
Fix the customer service, please!

I think that this is the only Trader Joe’s in Reno and the store is a bit smaller than most. It does have good prices, at least for them. The selection was typical for TJ’s, with some nice fresh fruits and vegetables and some foods that you typically won’t find at other places.

I love Trader Joe’s! For the ¹⁵⁄₁₆ years they have been open, it’s been my main grocery store. I give 4 stars instead of 5 because there some things they don’t carry in the organic and floral selection… I then have to go to Whole Foods just to be gouged in the pricing department. I buy fresh flowers every 2 to 3 weeks given that’s how long their flowers last. (If you use the fresh flower powder in the water) sometimes they last a month! However, no separate fillers. (Baby’s breath and such) another reason to follow up at WF’s.
I’m going to bring this to their attention. I think the manager will accommodate because he’s cool like that!
TJ’s has a good selection of cheese, bread, juice, (carrot, orange, etc…) pizza, fruits, vegetables, select wine and beer… They carry amazing Gala and Fuji apples. Very easy to keep up an apple a day keeps the doctor away, eating regimen. ~ there is an «ok» selection of salads and pre-​made quickie meals… Wish there was a little more…
My number one satisfaction is PRICE! I can fill a cart for $ 150 ~ $ 175. Filling a cart at comparable stores, would easily come to about $ 400 if buying the «same» things.
All the employee’s are awesome too! However, seems there is a high turnover in people. Half have been there for years and the other half seem to to have an influx of newbies. I hope behind the seen, everyone is treated right.

I lived almost all my life without a Trader Joe’s nearby. How did I ever survive? I will never know. Once you have one close by, you just can’t do without it. You start experiencing withdraws…
I live in Sparks, but the boy and I make the drive once a week down to South Reno to go to Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods. If I had to pick one store with good prices, friendly staff, organic options, and a pretty awesome spread to select from, Trader Joe’s would be it. Every week, we get about 80−90% of our items here. The selection is amazing and I just absolutely love the staff here. They are so helpful and they always greet you! I especially love check out because we always manage to strike up a great conversation (it’s mostly because the boy is always wearing a Red Sox hat which just gets a lot of attention down here I guess!) with the cashiers.
Fresh produce? Check. Cheese? Check. Meat? Check. Snacks? Milk? Eggs? Animal Supplies? Wine? CHECK! It’s pretty much all here. Oh, and tons of organic and «better for the environment» options.
Just thought I would add, but I love the ability to taste some type of food in the back, along with a tea (usually), and sometimes even wine and cheese in the alcohol section! I’m usually the girl that sticks to what she knows, so it’s nice to be able to actually try something to see if I like it before committing to it. TJ also rewards you for bringing in reusable bags when you shop. The cashier always has us fill out a slip of paper and it enters you into a drawing; how cool!

They have a good selection of frozen food in this tiny store. We don’t ever leave without some items from the frozen section. For the small selection of beer and wine I do end up with something of either variety more often than not. Produce seems to be a better grade than some other nearby stores but when it looks really good you notice it in the price. Staff are always friendly and helpful.
My biggest complaint is their floral dept. I have purchased flowers from here on several occasions and they don’t ever seem to last very long, even when following the directions. Some start to wilt as early as the next day. Also worth mentioning is traffic at this location. On a crowded day you have to be on your ‘A’ game to avoid an accident with the crazies in and around the parking lot. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

I love Trader Joe’s and I could be in here all day. From the fresh flowers that are in the front to greet you when you walk in, to the fresh produce, cheese, wines and prepackaged dried fruits/​nuts/​cookies — everything is awesome.
I wish we had one in Hawaii. So being in Reno, I had to find one and found my way here. This store is typical of any other Trader Joe’s I’ve been to. I loaded up on Speculoos cookies, butter almond thins, butter wafers, almonds, sesame cashews, etc.
The cashiers at the register are all super friendly as usual. The store is clean and parking was plentiful in this little strip mall.